The Georgia Museum of Natural History provides Joshua Laerm
Academic Support Awards annually. These awards support studies in natural history by
students currently enrolled at the University of Georgia.

Application deadlines for both graduate and undergraduate students is on 7 October 2016. Application
requirements have recently changed, please read through the
Information about the award for more information.

Dr. Laerm was the Museum Director from 1978 to
1997. A fund has been established in his memory to support student research in natural history.

Whale of a Move!

The Georgia Museum of Natural History is excited about the addition of hundreds of specimens to our
research collection. These specimens include skins, skulls, postcranial skeletons, and fluid-preserved materials from the Northeastern
University Vertebrate Collection in Nahant, MA. We look forward
to sharing this impressive collection with the public in the near future.
Read more here.

Fishes of Georgia

Georgia ranks in the top five U.S. States for freshwater fish diversity, but to our knowledge
lacks a statewide distributional atlas. This distributional atlas will provide up-to-date distributions
of the 300+ freshwater fishes of Georgia for government, educational and public use. The website will
also contain photos, distributional notes, and taxonomic information for each species.
Click here for the Fishes of Georgia website.

The information provided here is free of charge. If you would like to support this
and other similar projects provided by the Georgia Museum of Natural History, consider making a donation.
(Click here).